Lourdes dropped both ends of a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference doubleheader against Lawrence Tech on Sunday afternoon at Mercy Field, falling by scores of 4-1 and 7-4.
 
"I thought we competed and played two very clean games today," head coach Jeremy Snow said afterwards.  "It was disappointing to lose two close games."
 
Lawrence Tech jumped in front in the opening inning of game one with a RBI double and added a pair of runs, both on groundouts, in the third.
 
The Gray Wolves scored their lone run in the fifth as Cameron Gallo's (Mason, Ohio/Bishop Fenwick H.S.) sacrifice fly plated Austin Oulds (Chatham, Ont./Kent H.S.).  The Lourdes offense would come up empty the rest of the way though, as the Gray Wolves managed just five hits, all singles, in the opener.
 
The Blue Devils added an insurance run in the eight on a two-out single to secure the win.
 
Oulds and Gallo each had two hits for Lourdes, accounting for all but one of the hits against Matt Blunk, who earned the win (3-1) for Lawrence Tech.  Blunk worked eight innings, striking out seven and walking five while allowing just an unearned run.
 
Liam Bloom (Swanton, Ohio/Swanton H.S.) suffered the loss (0-2) for the Gray Wolves, yielding three runs and six hits in seven innings of work.
 
The Blue Devils took an early lead in the nightcap as well.  The first five batters of the game reached with singles, with four crossing the plate.
 
A two-out run in the third and an earned run in the fourth inning increased the Lawrence Tech lead to 6-0 before the visitors tacked on a seventh run in the top of the sixth inning.
 
After being shutout for six innings, Lourdes finally broke through with two outs in the seventh.  A bases loaded walk to Braden Halford (Port Hope, Ont./Saint Mary's H.S.) scored Noah Childress (Toledo, Ohio/Start H.S.) and Gallo followed with a two-run single that plated Brandon Horman (Oregon, Ohio/Saint John's Jesuit H.S.) and Jay Denman (Toledo, Ohio/Saint Francis de Sales H.S.).
 
Lourdes (7-10, 1-3 WHAC) continued its rally in the eighth as Horman singled with two outs to plate Brad Ammons (Holland, Ohio/Springfield H.S.), pulling the Gray Wolves within three, 7-4, but that would be as close as the hosts would get.
 
Ammons had three hits and Denman added two more as part of the Gray Wolves' eight-hit effort in game two.   
 
Alek Wietrzykowski went the distance for the win (2-1) for Lawrence Tech (18-9, 2-2), striking out nine.  Kolby Rogge (Toledo, Ohio/Springfield H.S.) suffered the loss (0-3), allowing six runs, five of which were earned, and 10 hits in five innings.  He struck out five.